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Bees and fish Flashcards

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Outline the importance of bees

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  • Honey production
  • Pollination
  • Medicinal products
  • Cosmetics
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Outline reasons for the declining be population in developing countries

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  • Change in agricultural practice
  • Monocultures unattractive to bees, food is not available throughout year
  • Addition of pesticides
  • Introduction of diseases and parasites
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What is the purpose of the National Bee Unit?

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To achieve a sustainable and healthy population of honey bees for pollination and honey production in England and Wales, via strengthened partnership working between Government and other stakeholders

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Outline the structure of honey bee colonies

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  • 60,000 workers, 2000 drones, 1 queen

- In winter, 10,000 workers, no drones 1 queen

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Outline the honey bee lifecycle

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  • Each egg laid in hexagonal wax cell, hatch into larvae
  • Not all eggs treated equally
  • Workers “cap” cells when larvae are ready to pupate
  • Adult emerges at different times depending on caste
  • Queen: 16 days, workers 21 days, drones 24 days
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Outline honey bee feeding

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  • Nectar, is mainly sucrose. Converted to glucose and fructose by invertase
  • Nectar regurgitates into storage cells
  • Pollen mixed with nectar, collected in baskets, packed into cells by worker “house” bees
  • Workers forage for food towards end of life
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Outline the structure of honey bee hives

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  • British National Hive used
  • Series of stacked boxes
  • Used for brooding and honey production
  • Entrance at bottom into brood box, then queen excluder, then honey supers then wooden crown board and waterproof roof
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What is the function of the brood box in a bee hive?

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Is the heart of the colony where the queen lays her eggs

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What is the function of the queen excluder in a bee hive?

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Prevents access of the queen to the levels above but workers are able to access. Allows storage of excess honey in honey supers

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Describe honey production in the hive

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  • Nectar brought in, stored in honey supers
  • Dilute sugar solution
  • Thermoregulation and ventilation by bees to evaporate water from solution
  • Once approx 17% water, capped with wax to seal
  • Good hive produces 60lbs in a season, average is 25lbs
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Outline the harvesting of honey

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  • July and August
  • Honey released by sliding long knife over surface of cells
  • Remove wax cap and frames placed in centrifuge to spin out honey
  • Must not remove too much as large colonies will starve
  • Honey filtered and pasteurised before sale
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Describe the UK honey market

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  • 80% reliant on foreign imports
  • Main EU suppliers: Germany, Hungary, Spain and France
  • Main Third Country suppliers: Argentina, New Zealand, China, Mexico, India
  • Most honey is blended
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Describe migratory bee keeping

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  • Type of flower foraged impacts flavour and texture of product
  • Heather highly valued
  • May move to these areas (Yorkshire Moors)
  • Can be successful if manage well, good bees, good livestock management and good weather conditions
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What are the main microbiological and pharmacological residue issues associated with honey production?

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Clostridium botulinum and veterinary residues such as streptomycin

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Describe the issues associated with Clostridium botulinum in honey

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  • Viable spores found in honey
  • Infant botulism is a risk (paralysis and death)
  • Immature gut flora cannot compete
  • Do not feed to children <12 months old
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Describe the issues associated with pharmacological residues in honey

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  • No MRLs for antimicrobials in honey sold in the EU as are not permitted to use antimicrobials
  • In some cases APHA permits use of oxytetracycling BUT cannot be sold for 6 months
  • Few products are authorised for apiculture
  • Chloramphenicol, streptomycin, tetracyclines and sulphonamides are tested for, has led to some import bans where found
  • Risk of pesticides also being present (organophosphates, organochlorines, metals e.g. cadmium and lead)
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Who has responsibility for residue testing of honey in the UK?

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VMD via the NBU

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What factors may affect bee colony productivity?

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  • Management (host genetics, pesticides, husbandry, nutrition)
  • Environment (pesticides, climate, nutrition)
  • Pests and diseases (varroa, nosema, viruses)
  • Are all inter linked
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What is the role of vets in bee colony management?

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  • Bees are vital to economy and food security
  • Control of diseases and pests therefore important
  • Use of licensed therapeutic products
  • Drug resistance and residues potential
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What legislation covers the control of bee disease?

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Bees Act 1980

  • Orders from ministers and sec of state to control diseases and pests affecting honey bees
  • Provides powers of entry for authorised persons
  • Statutory orders list diseases against which statutory action must be taken
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List the important diseases of bees and state whether they are notifiable or not

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  • European Foul Brood (notifiable)
  • American Foul Brood (notifiable)
  • Tropilaelaps mites (notifiable)
  • Small hive beetle (notifiable)
  • Varroa destructor
  • Nosema
  • Asian hornet
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Outline European Foul Brood

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  • Melisossocus plutonius bacteria most important cause (are others)
  • Internation
  • Affects brood before capped and develops into adults
  • Brood exhibits shotgun pattern
  • Shook-swarm technique can be used in mild cases
  • Destroy colony in severe cases
  • Occasionally APHA has allowed use of oxytetracycline to treat EFB, but is not first choice
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Describe the appearance of larvae affected by European Foul Brood

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  • Dead larvae
  • Brown or tan colour
  • Melted appearance
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What is the shook-swarm technique?

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Transfer of adults to new hive and destruction of old comb and hive

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Outline American Foul Brood

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  • Paenibacillus larvae, Gram +ve spore forming bacteria
  • More severe than EFB
  • Brood die after being capped
  • Does not affect adult bees
  • Larvae infected by consumption of contaminated feed, multiplies in gut until larvae die
  • Spores can be viable for >40 years, easily transferred to other hives by fomites or bees
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Outline the control of AFB

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  • Destroy colony, burn equipment under supervision of inspector
  • Good biosecurity, acquitision of bees from reputable sources
  • Not sharing equipment with other bee keepers
  • Antimicrobials not used
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How is AFB diagnosed?

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  • Ropiness test

- Stir contents of cell with small probe, as probe is pulled out “rope” 1-3cm long will form if AFB present

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Outline Tropilaelaps

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  • Parasitic mites affecting developing brood and adults
  • Mites feed on haemolymph of developing larvae, leads to brood patterns, stunted adults and potential colony collapse
  • Abnormal brood development (deformed wing virus in developing larvae)
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What are the consequences of Tropilaelaps infection?

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  • Abnormal development of brood
  • Deformed wings
  • Cannot forage for food
  • Colony starves
  • Is notifiable
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Outline the control of Tropilaelaps

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  • Exact geographical range unknown but currently not found in UK
  • Mainly SE Asia
  • Import control is main defence
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Outline the Small Hive Beetle

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  • Aethina tumida
  • Widespread in many areas but not in UK
  • larvae eat wax, pollen, honey, bee brood and eggs
  • Contaminate honey with faeces causing it to ferment
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Outline the control of the Small Hive Beetle

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  • Good husbandry is effective defence

- Unlikely that small hive beetle could be eradicated once present in the UK

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Outline Varroa destructor

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  • Parasitie mite
  • Reproduces in sealed brood cells, feeds on haemolymph
  • Present in all inhabited continents except Australia
  • Vector for pathogen such as deformed wing virus
  • Most colonies die if let untreated
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Outline the control of Varroa destructor

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  • Integrated pest management
  • Chemical treatments e.g thymol, flumethrin tau fluvalinate, formic acid
  • Oxalic acid effective but unlicensed
  • Dusting with icing sugar, trap combs also effective
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Outline Nosema appis

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  • Microsporidian (fungal) parasite, invades midgut of bees, causes dysentery
  • Infects gut of adult bees
  • If queen infected, ovaries degenerate, egg production drops
  • Can reduce honey yields significantly
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Outline the diagnosis and control of Nosema apis

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  • Yellow stripes of faecal matter seen in infected colonies and on hive
  • Diagnosis by light microscopy or PCR
  • No licensed treatments available
37
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Outline Asian hornets as a disease of bees

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  • Vespa velutina nigrithorax
  • Highly motile, very few required to destroy entire colony
  • Attempts to control in France highly unsuccessful
  • Risk of spread to Uk
38
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List the common steps in the flow diagram of fish processing

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  • Gutting and deheading
  • Desliming
  • Weighing
  • Filleting
  • Trimming
  • Pinbone removal
  • Skinning
  • Fillet washing
  • Grading
39
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Outline “desliming” in fish processing

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  • Removal of fish slime
  • Improves presentation
  • Reduces bacterial contamination
  • Can use high water pressure in highly mechanised plants
40
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Outline filleting in fish processing

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  • Cutting fish into fillets
  • Can be manual or mechanical
  • Efficiency essential to not affect yield
41
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Outline “trimming” in fish processing

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  • Trimming methods vary
  • Depends on throughput, labour costs, traceability requirements
  • Can be highly advanced automatic or basic manual
42
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Outline manual trimming in fish processing

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  • Most designed as active lines
  • Trimming conducted on conveyor belt while it is running
  • Throughput depends on fish size and trim level
43
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Outline fillet washing in fish processing

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  • Prior to packing, freezing, further handling washing unit used
  • rinse off slime, blood, remains from filleting, trimming, pinboning
  • Can reduce bacterial count
44
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What is the main cause of food-borne illness from fish?

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  • Fish usually only lightly cooked, raw or pickled

- Increases chance of pathogen survival

45
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What are the main human health hazards from fish?

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  • Food-borne pathogens
  • Zoonoses
  • Allergens
  • Toxins
  • Contaminants
  • Antimicrobial resistance risks
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What are the main zoonotic bacteria of fish?

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  • Aeromonas spp.
  • Vibrio spp.
  • Mycobacterium spp.
  • Streptococcus iniae
  • Erysipelothirx rhusiopathiae
47
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Describe Diphyllobothrium latum

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  • Cestode
  • Procercoid found in musculature and viscera of marine and freshwater fish species
  • Also found in birds, bears, seals, walruses, dogs
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Describe Anisakis spp.

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  • Nematode
  • life cycle involves marine crustaceans, fish, squid and mammals
  • Larvae found in viscera and muscle many fish spp
  • Definitive hosts are marine mammals
49
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Describe human infection with Anisakis spp.

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  • Adult nematide in intestine of humans
  • Infection by consumption of raw/pickled fish
  • Invasive and non-invasive form
  • Non-invasive asymtpmatic
  • Invasive = severe reaction, bloody stools, nausea, ulcers
  • Can result in hypersensitivity
  • Treatment is surgery
50
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List the chemicals associated with bivalve consumption

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  • Heavy metals including mercury
  • cadmium
  • Lead
51
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Explain why shellfish can cause health problems in humans

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  • Many shellfish areas impacted by sewage
  • Filter large amounts of water per hour
  • Filtration results in accumulation of toxins, bacteria, viruses etc within the shellfish
  • Shellfish are often eaten raw or lightly cooked
52
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Describe algal toxins

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  • Phytoplankton species produce biotoxins
  • Filter feeding shellfish accumulate these in flesh
  • DSP persistent problem in some Uk coastal areas, PSP very rare, ASP very rare and fatal
  • Cooking shellfish will not destroy toxins
  • Resistant to freezing
53
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How is the risk from algal toxins reduced?

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  • Weekly sampling

- Reduced to monthly if supported by risk assessment

54
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What control measures are used to control/reduce the human health risks from fish?

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  • Freezing
  • Cooking
  • Water depuration
  • Cleaning/disinfection of equipment in food processing plants
  • Monitoring
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Outline the requirements regarding the freezing of fishery products

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  • All products destined to be eaten raw must be frozen before use
  • Includes products that will be marinated and salted
  • Also where smoking does not lead to core temperature of 60degrees for at least 1 min
  • Must be frozen at -20degrees for 24 hours OR -35degrees for 15hours
  • 4 exceptional conditions
56
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Why is freezing used as a control measure in fisheries?

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Protects consumer against parasites (does not kill the parasite) e.g. Anisakis

57
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Outline the four exceptions for the freezing of fishery products

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1: Where products have been or will be heat treated at a level that will kill viable parasites (60degrees for 1 min except trematodes)

2: Fish preserved as frozen for long enough to kill viable parasites (-18degrees for 4 days for storage, transport and distribution)

3: Wild catches authorised by FSA where evidence shows no health hazard at fishing grounds (none of these in UK)

4: Farmed fish where are cultured from embryos and fed on diet that cannot contain viable parasites, environment free from parasites, evidence that fishery products have no parasites

58
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Why is cooking used as a control measure in fishery products?

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Kills parasites, viruses and bacteria, however does not inactivate biotoxins

59
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Why is cleaning and disinfection effective in controlling health hazards from fishery products?

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  • Organic residues are good source of nutrients for microorganisms that can develop and establish on surfaces
  • Biofilms can then contaminate the food processed on these
  • Key target is Listeria monocytogenes
60
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Why is water depuration used in the control of health hazards from fishery products?

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  • Effective against bacteria normally faecal contaminants, excreted and present in water)
  • Poorly effective against viruses as these are within the flesh of the animal
  • Not consistently effective at reducing contamination with biotoxins
  • Relies on harvesters compliance
61
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What is water depuration?

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Seawater from tanks (particularly for shellfish) continuously pumped through an ultraviolet chamber

62
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List the farmed marine finfish

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  • Atlantic salmon
  • Cod
  • Halibut
  • Turbot
63
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List the farmed freshwater finfish

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  • Rainbow trout
  • Brown trout
  • Carp
  • Barramundi
  • Tilapia
  • Pangasius
64
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Outline the reasons for farming fish

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  • Food production
  • Stocking recreational fisheries
  • Diversity of species
  • Pet trade
65
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What are the different methods of mussel farming?

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  • Wild harvest
  • Seabed culture
  • Suspended culture
66
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What other activities may take place in areas of mussel cultivation?

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  • Other fish farms
  • Leisure
  • Shipping
67
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What is MAB in fish farming?

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  • Maximum Allowed Biomass
  • Determines for each area based on environmental concerns e.g. capacity of local marine environment to accommodate fish farm
68
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Outline some of the non-infectious contaminants of aquatic products

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  • Contamination with veterinary residues
  • Contamination with herbicides or pesticides
  • Contaminated with heavy metals (Cd, Hg, Pb)
  • Toxins
69
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Outline the main toxins involved with the consumption of shell fish

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  • Amnesic shell fish poisoning (ASP)
  • Diarrhoeic shell fish poisoning (DSP)
  • Paralytc shell fish poisoning (PSP)
70
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Outline the main toxins involved with the consumption of fish

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  • Scombrotoxin
  • Ciguatoxin
  • Tetrodotoxin
71
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Outline the hazards to public health from fish farming in shared aquatic enviroments.

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Pollution of water bodies by increased organic loa, causing the survival of pathogens and multiplication of vectors.

Spread of AMR through easy mixing of bacteria, and overuse of antibiotics.

72
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Outline the local and global aquaculture standards organisations

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Global:
* Aquaculture stewardship council (ASC)
* FAOs Code of Conduct for responsible fisheries

National:
* RSPCA
* Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) code of good practice.

73
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Outline examples of Indirect Operational Welfare Indicators (OWIs)

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  • Water quality: temerature, salinity, oxygenation, ammonia levels, nitires, turbidity, flow etc
  • Lighting
  • Feed quality/load
  • Stocking density
  • Tank/filer microbiome

These are all husbandry related factors

74
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Outline examples of group based Direct Operational Welfare Indicators (OWIs)

Also called outcome or animal-bases welfare indicators

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  • Mortality
  • Behaviour,
  • Apetite
  • Growth
  • Presence of emciated fish
  • blood or scales in water
  • discolouration
  • Presence of disease
75
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Outline examples of individual based Direct Operational Welfare Indicators (OWIs)

Also called outcome or animal-bases welfare indicators

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  • Opercular movement
  • Gill condition
  • Body condition
  • Sexual maturation
  • Smoltification Status
  • Fin condition
  • Skin condition
  • Presence of wounds
  • Eye condition
  • Jaw deformities
76
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Name the four main aquaculture production systems and list in order of intensity.

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  • Ponds
  • Cages
  • Raceways
  • Recirculating aqauaculture systems (RAS)

From lowest to highest intensity

77
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Give advantages of cages

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  • Easy stocking
  • Easy feeding
  • Easy harvest
78
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Give disadvantages of cages

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  • Little environmental control
  • Susceptibility to predators
  • Exposure to water borne irritants
    (jellyfish, plankton blooms)
  • Exposure to bad weather conditions
  • Shared wáter body – quicker disease
    spread
  • Limited water quality control.
79
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What do waste removal systmes need to bear in mind?

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  • Waste generally falls through bottom of cage/ponds/tanks
  • Depends on water movement
  • Ammonia production.
  • Algae and bacteria
80
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What are the main zooinotic trematodes of fish?

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  • Opisthorchiidae
  • Heterophyidae
81
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What are the main zooinotic nematodes of fish?

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  • Anisakidae
  • Gnathostomidae
82
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What is the main zooinotic cestode of fish?

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Diphyllobothridae latum

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